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G C and D chords, variations AND help with changing chords

In this acoustic guitar lesson series we're going to learn to play TEN beginner guitar songs with the three most common guitar chords; G major, C major and D major. The writeup for this lesson is under the video.

Here are the 10 songs you can play with these 3 chords. Click on any song title to choose your song!

The chords you need

Chords needed

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If you need more help and want to make the fastest possible progress as a beginner, you may wish to checkout the more detailed lessons at Level 1 of Andy's complete Beginners Course, where the chords, changes, strumming etc are broken down into separate videos.

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